Clam Anti Virus on IBM iSeries using PASE

Introduction

Note. This HOWTO is a work in progress, and is still very incomplete...

Who should read this HOWTO

This HOWTO is intended for anyone interested in installing and using the free !ClamAV anti virus scanner on an IBM iSeries.

Disclaimer

Use this document at your own risk - no liabilty for the contents can be accepted. This document is put together from my own experience with ClamAV, and while I believe it to be accurate I can't guarantee it will work on your system.

Prerequisites

1. V5R2? or higher of OS/400. This may work at an earlier release, but that has not been tested.
2. PASE - Licensed Program 5722SS1, Option 33: OS/400 - Portable App Solutions Environment.
3. Port 80 access to the internet from your iSeries or iSeries LPAR if you wish to fetch antivirus signature updates direct from your iSeries.

Installation considerations and planning

Installing ClamAV

Initial iSeries setup

These steps can be done from from either QShell or the PASE shell. The following assumes the PASE shell.

1. Enter the PASE shell: CALL PGM(QP2TERM?)
2. Create the /usr/local directory: mkdir /QOpenSys/usr/local
3. Create a symbolic link to the local directory in the root '/' directory: ln -s /QOpenSys/usr/local /usr/local

Software packages

Use the AIX 5.1 version of each of these packages

1. ClamAV - http://aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu/packages/clamav.html
2. Curl - http://aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu/packages/curl.html
3. GZip - http://aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu/packages/gzip.html
4. UnZip - http://aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu/packages/unzip.html

Using ClamAV

Removing ClamAV

-- MartinRowe - 19 Jul 2005